Infrastructure Lead – FinTech, Azure, Security

Overview

As Infrastructure Lead, you will own core infrastructure and security engineering in a Microsoft/Azure environment within a growing FinTech. You will drive secure, scalable, and resilient systems across hybrid cloud and on-premises platforms, and act as a technical escalation point for teams. You lead a small infra team, shaping security-first initiatives and DR readiness while collaborating across IT and security stakeholders. This is a hands-on leadership role with real scope to impact uptime, security posture, and delivery of infrastructure projects.

Pay / Benefits

• up to 80,000 salary
• bonus
• benefits package
• hybrid work (2:3 in office)
• career progression
• dynamic FinTech environment

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day IT infrastructure operations and support
• Design and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure solutions
• Maintain high availability and performance for Microsoft-based infrastructure (hybrid cloud/on-prem)
• Oversee servers, storage, networking, backup, cloud, and virtualization
• Ensure disaster recovery readiness and infrastructure security standards
• Patch management, vulnerability response, and security controls
• Manage endpoint protection, firewalls, SIEM, MFA, email security and access controls
• Implement security policies, best practices, and collaboration with external security providers
• Provide leadership and development for the Infra team

Key requirements

• Experience with Windows Server/Desktop, Active Directory, Entra, Hybrid domains, Group Policies, 365, Intune, Teams, SharePoint
• Networking skills including TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, DNS; experience with Cisco/Fortinet FortiGate
• Server virtualization with Nutanix, Hyper-V
• Strong focus on security, hardening, vulnerability assessments, patch management, and compliance (GDPR, PCI, ISO27001)
• Experience with external penetration testing
• Cyber security tools: endpoints, email, networks, incident response
• Certificate and domain management; TLS/SSL handling
• Azure design, deployment, and administration of cloud infrastructure
• Some understanding of MS SQL Database administration
• Ability to lead and develop a small team

• Leadership and people management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Security-first mindset
• Microsoft technologies (Windows Server/Desktop, AD, Entra, Hybrid domains, GPOs, 365, Intune)
• Azure design, deploy, administer, monitor
• Networking (DNS, VPN, VLAN, TCP/IP)

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